Pantagruel and His Band, Famished [wood block].

Accession number: 
PML 128507.55
Author: 
Daupar, engraver.
Published: 
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description: 
1 wood block : boxwood ; 74 x 205 mm
Credit: 
Purchased in 2000.
Notes: 

Surface of the block has been inked and prepared with white.
Engraved block after Doré, with a design for an illustration for Gargantua et Pantagruel, created for Doré's 1873 illustrated edition of the collected works of François Rabelais (Oeuvres. Paris : Garnier Frères, 1873, v. 2, p. 197).
Signed within the block: G Doré; Daupar.
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.211.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "728".

Summary: 

Engraved design shows Pantagruel and a group of male figures reclining against a wall, with a bearded monk kneeling before them.

Classification: 
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